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title: Goji Berry Holiday Cocktail Recipe with Rum
description: Goji berries bring healthful properties and brilliant, festive color to holiday cocktails. Learn how to infuse spirits and make craft beverages to share in good company.
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# [Goji Berry Holiday Cocktail Recipe with Rum](https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/goji-berry-holiday-cocktail)

 Written by [Shawn](https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/author/shawn) | December 12, 2020

With the holidays soon upon us, it’s time to start preparing for my seasonal lycii (goji) berry winter cocktail. As I mentioned in the fall, my adventures with [herb-infused spirits](https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/elderberry-bellini?hsLang=en-us) started with a remarkable hibiscus-infused martini that I had at one of my favorite local brewpubs. I was so inspired; I now have a stock of mason jars full of herb-infused liquors ready for whatever mood my friends and family might be in. For the holiday season, I wanted to create an herb-infused cocktail that would have a brilliantly red, festive color and a delicious sweet-tart flavor profile. Healthful lycii berries turned out to be the perfect answer!

[Lycii berry](https://mountainroseherbs.com/lycii-berries) (*Lycium barbarum*), also known to herbalists as goji, Chinese wolfberry, or Chinese boxthorn, is a bright red, almost chewy berry with a taste very similar to raisins. Generally found in lowland areas across Asia, the high-altitude strain of *Lycium* is the well-known goji berry. The berries can be eaten raw (they’re delicious in trail mixes, desserts, and smoothies). They can also be steeped as tea and they make a *delicious* infusion in rum.

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## Goji Berry Infused Rum

*Makes approximately 16 drinks*

**Ingredients**

- Approximately 1 cup [organic dried lycii berries](https://mountainroseherbs.com/lycii-berries)
- Approximately 3 cups good dark rum of choice

**Directions**

1. At least five days before serving cocktails, fill a clean quart jar about 1/3 full of lycii berries.
2. Top the jar off with dark rum.
3. Set aside to infuse for about five days. The jar can remain on the counter. Shake once a day.
4. Strain the infused rum into a separate pint jar.
5. Follow the directions below for goji berry cocktail.

**Pro Tip**

- Taste infused rum along the way to determine your preferred flavor profile. 

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## Goji Berry Holiday Cocktail

Makes 1 drink.

**Ingredients**

- Lycii berry-infused rum
- Organic cherry juice

**Directions**

1. Fill a champagne flute half full of cherry juice.
2. Top off glass with lycii berry-infused rum.
3. Enjoy!

 

### Looking for a Beverage without alcohol?

## [Try this Maqui Berry Mocktail for the Holidays](https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/maqui-berry-mocktail?hsLang=en-us)

 

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- [Old Fashioned Pumpkin Spice Cocktail with Cardamom Bitters](https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/pumpkin-spice-fashioned?hsLang=en-us)

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